Polar Exploration and The Importance of Leadership.

The Last Place On Earth by Roland Huntford gives us an inside look at the race to the South Pole.  Polar exploration is the product of the Industrial Revolution.  The excitement of exploring arctic regions was an incredible feat of ingenuity.  Huntford looks at two individuals who were racing to reach the South Pole, the last polar region to […]

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I finished a delightful children’s novel that I think adults could enjoy as well.  Titled A Turn For DeWurst, writer Sydney Kendall tells the story of a highly intelligent girl named Astrid whose small town school has been taken over by a power-lusting teacher.  This teacher has managed to convince the town that teaching conformity and […]

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November 2010 was a scary time for my family.  My father had a massive heart attack which was caused by three blocked arteries, two of which were 100% blocked.  Two stents were placed into his arteries.  The doctors were amazed he survived.  I attribute this to my father not being a smoker or heavy drinker.  […]

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September 11th is a day of dread.  I can’t believe it has been 10 years since that horrific day of barbarism.  I sometimes still can’t believe it happened.  I feel sadness for 3000 souls who were destroyed.  One day about a year ago I went on a website of Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment firm that […]

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I just returned from a fabulous trip to D.C.  It has been about 30 years since I last visited.  The sites I visited were the Lincoln Memorial, which is magnificent in grandeur.  To me it embodied the man who saved the country.  I also went to the Library of Congress.  I took a tour of […]

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I just finished reading a provocative book that answers this question.  In the book Sex at Dawn authors Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha say no.  Their thesis is that modern sexuality is modeled after our prehistoric ancestors.  As hunter-gatherers, our prehistoric cousins lived in group settings.  This included males and females who shared everything, including […]

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Never underestimate the power of myth.  The presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has made him into a God-like figure.  To this day, FDR has been deified because he supposedly saved the country from economic ruin during the Great Depression.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Burton Folsom, Jr., New Deal Or Raw Deal? How […]

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It has taken me eight long years to find Dr. Perl’s harrowing autobiography, I Was A Doctor in Auschwitz.  I cannot understand why this book is not being sold in bookstores!  Thanks to Amazon.com and its comments section I was able to contact the publisher and purchase the book.  Since childhood, I’ve found inspiration from […]

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The title says it all: SHAM-How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless.  That’s the name of the book I just finished reading.  Written by Steve Salerno, the acronym for SHAM is Self-Help and Actualization Movement.  Make no mistake we have all been affected by the pop psychology movement.  From Oprah Winfrey to Phil McGraw, there […]

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It’s a known fact that our public school system is in serious trouble.  But what about those students who are not typical or average students?  I just finished reading an interesting book about left-brainers.  Katherine Beals, a mother of 3 left-brainers wrote a book called Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for […]

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